Finance Assistant FTC - Remote in UK or India

Role: Finance Assistant FTC

Reports to: Operations - Finance

Location: Remote working (UK or India based)

Salary UK: up to £34,000 pro rata depending on experience

Salary India: up to INR 1,500,000 pro rata depending on experience

Hours: Full-Time

About Vestd

Vestd is the UK's leading sharetech platform for share schemes and business admin.

Our regulated platform makes light work of all of the most popular and tax-efficient share scheme types, empowering businesses to attract and retain their talent. Our powerful software also helps investors, and helps founders seeking investment.

Vestd was founded by Ifty Nasir, who lives and breathes our mission. Vestd’s big moonshot aim is to see one billion people worldwide invested in the companies they work hard to grow by 2030. We are all about inclusion and fairness for our customers and our team.

Vestd is also a B Corp-certified company, which means we’re committed to balancing profit with purpose. We care about our people, our customers, and the wider world – and we hold ourselves to the highest social and environmental standards.

If you’d like to learn more about Vestd, check out this short video from our founder, Ifty.

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) at Vestd 

At Vestd, we prioritise equality, diversity, and inclusion, so we write about it here rather than at the end of the job advertisement. We’re committed to building a respectful, inclusive, and diverse team. Trust is one of our core values; with that comes a commitment to fairness and transparency. We want to be open about our EDI efforts.

Research shows that while men are likely to apply when they meet 60% of a job’s requirements, women and individuals from underrepresented groups often apply only when they meet every criterion. 

We understand the value of transferable skills and the unique perspectives that diversity brings. That’s why we encourage applications from candidates with unique strengths and experiences.

If you need any adjustments or support with your application, please let us know in your application or throughout the process.

Requirements

The role

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Assistant to immediately join our Operations team on a short-term basis. This is a fixed-term contract for three months, providing administrative and day-to-day finance support to our Senior Financial Controller.

This role is ideal for someone with a background in finance administration, bookkeeping, or office support, who is looking to gain experience in a fast-paced, remote-first tech company.

The primary responsibilities of this role

We cannot provide an exhaustive list of duties; additional duties will arise, but the following will be core elements of this role:

• Support daily finance admin tasks, including filing invoices, matching receipts, and updating expense records
• Assist with managing the inbox for finance queries (internal and external)
• Help process supplier payments and liaise with team members to collect approvals and missing info
• Support with reconciling bank statements and inputting transactions into Xero
• Support with processing payroll
• Assist in preparing month-end, including journals, reports and documents,as needed
• Maintain orderly and up-to-date financial files and shared records
• Help with data collection for regulatory, tax or audit requests
• Provide ad hoc administrative support to the Senior Financial Controller

Essential elements for this role

These are the skills and qualifications we consider essential for this role: 

• Previous experience in a finance admin, financial support role
• Familiarity with accounting software
• Impeccable attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
• Comfortable using Excel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Reliable, proactive and able to work independently
• You must be comfortable with working in a fully remote environment
• Able to handle sensitive financial information with discretion
• You must be available to start within 30 days

Nice to have

These will help you stand out from the pack:

• Startup/scaleup experience
• Experience working in an FCA environment
• Experience working in a remote team

Culture fit

What makes Vestd folk collaborative, adaptable, and eager to grow?

• Thrives in a startup environment, ready to tackle diverse challenges with enthusiasm
• Adaptable - open to taking on responsibilities beyond the defined role as needed
• Passionate about contributing to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Embraces technology to improve processes and drive efficiency

Benefits

What you can expect

Our culture is our backbone (BreatheHR named us one of the ‘Top 3 Companies in the UK for Company Culture’), and we take team happiness seriously.

Vestd strives to be as principled as possible. We’re all about Goal 8 of the United Nations ‘Sustainable Development Goals. This goal is about ‘Decent work and economic growth,’ and we consider it both with our external activities and internal workings.

We’ll do everything we can to support you in your FTC role. This fixed-term role is a fantastic opportunity to join a close-knit, award-winning team and contribute to meaningful work.

While FTC roles don’t include our full, permanent benefits package, you’ll still experience Vestd’s strong culture, collaborative spirit, and a welcoming team environment.

Our application process

We are accepting rolling applications for this role with no fixed end date - if you are interested in joining the Vestd folk, please apply when you can. We will respond to every applicant, but we may only screen some candidates depending on the number of applications received.

Our recruitment pipeline has a few stages, giving you plenty of opportunities to learn about Vestd as we take the time to find someone who is the best fit for the role. We aim to complete the selection process as efficiently as possible, and we are committed to making our candidate experience as inclusive as we can, so please get in touch with us if you require any information or support during the application process or need to ask for any adjustments. 

The selection process for this FTC role will be:

• Apply online
• 20-minute screening call
• 45-minute interview with the hiring team (including the team lead)
• Task-based assignment
• Hiring decision

We are excited to receive your application.

When a role is filled, we will let all the applicants know to let them know.

This job is remote within either the UK or India. 

You must be primarily based in one of these locations and eligible to work there.